Publications

To celebrate World AIDS Day 2007 VSO and ActionAid International launched their report on Women's Rights and HIV & AIDS: Why Women's Rights Must Shape the Universal Access Agenda. http://www.vso.org.uk/Images/walking_the_talk_tcm8-12470.pdf

10 Reasons Why Human Rights Should Occupy the Center of the Global AIDS Struggle, September 2007

At the 2006 United Nations High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS, world leaders reaffirmed that “the full realization of all human rights and fundamental freedoms for all is an essential element in the global response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.” Yet, 25 years into the AIDS epidemic, this “essential element” remains the missing piece in the fight against AIDS.

ICW puts forward our concerns with UN plans to dramatically increase HIV testing in two articles featured in the latest publication from the AIDS Legal Network (ALN) South Africa.

ICW outlines our fears that the UN strategy, particularly if tests are opt out, service provider initiated, will take the control from women and men to decide and prepare themselves for tests and for results. The various articles in this issue analyse different HIV testing models and approaches from a human rights perspective, and examine the extent to which the global call to scale up HIV testing, through the model of ‘provider-initiated opt-out routine testing’, creates an environment in which the fundamental human right to make an informed choice whether or not to test for HIV can be upheld, respected and protected.

Guttmacher Institute policy brief underscores sexual and reproductive health needs of people living with HIV
Despite the enormous challenge that AIDS still poses to global health, for many people able to access antiretroviral treatment, HIV infection can now be managed as a chronic disease. Against this backdrop, a new policy brief from the Guttmacher Institute, entitled “Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of People Living With HIV,” emphasizes that people living with HIV do not lose their desire to have sex and bear children, and outlines both the challenges and benefits of better meeting these needs.

BHIVA (the British HIV Association) consultation period to Wednesday 6 December 2006
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These guidelines have been written to consolidate and review existing evidence on management of sexual and reproductive health issues for HIV positive people who access treatment and care services in the United Kingdom.

The Brief highlights the crisis in delivering equitable health care for people living with HIV&AIDS, and the overwhelming burden it places on women and girls; it identifies changes that VSO is advocating for and provides recommendations to key stakeholders for policy and programme change.

Advocates Brief developed by the Global Campaign for Microbicides in close collaboration with other endorsing organizations including ICW, on HIV positive women and microbicides. While it articulates the current concerns and positions of these organizations, it is also a work in progress.

A new resource for teachers and group leaders on advocacy and HIV and AIDS encourages young people to voice their opinions and call on national and world leaders to keep their promises in response to the pandemic.

A new report by the Global Network of People living with HIV/AIDS Europe (GNP+ Europe) and Terrence Higgins Trust highlights the widespread criminalisation of HIV transmission across Europe and calls for an informed and measured approach based on public health and human rights.